[New-Poetry] Grand Slam in Land of Lakes

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Poets slam down their rhymes in Brink Lounge bout
Sarah Probst  —  8/07/2008 7:45 am 

Their words didn't float down out of the rafters and land on our shoulders. Instead, they slapped listeners across the face and begged for an explanation. This wasn't a flowery, Shakespearean sonnet exhibition with pentameters and rhymes and professions of romantic love.


Instead, Wednesday night was the second night of first bouts -- or rounds -- of the National Poetry Slam for four teams of four poets from around the continent to spit their rhymes in the city of Madison.


"The judges are going to assign (the poets') souls a numerical value," shouted host and slammer Nick to the 40 or so revelers gathered in the Brink Lounge's sprawling lower level. The poet implored attendees and judges to be kind, yet critical in their analysis of the slammers' raps.

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